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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

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PROPOSALS
FOR yV?9LlE FOR TEE Y. s NlVY.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

BUREAU or Provisions AND GLoTHING,
Washington, ID. c., July /, 1887.
Sealed proposals. endorsed Proposals
for Supplies, = viii be received from manu-
facturers or regular dealers only, at this
Bureau, until 10 o'clock noon, on July
%, 1887, and publicly opened Immediately
thereafter, at which time bidders are in
vited to be present or represented, for
annual supplies for the Navy. to be de-
livered at the following Navy Yards and
Stations PORTSMOUTH, N H., BosToN,
MASS, TORPEDO STATION, NEWPORT, r.
l., NEW YORK, N Y, LEAGUE ISLAND,
PA ANNAPOLIS, ND, WASHINGTON, ID.
c.. NoRFoLK, VA, aud PENSACOLA,
FLORIDA. Proposals for supplies to be
delivered at the Navy Yard, MARE Is
LAND, CALIFORNIA, will be received until
- o'clock no m, on August 8, 1887, and
opened Immediately thereafter, under the
same conditions as above stated.
The supplies required consist of the
following classes: Apparatus, electric;
Apparatus fire and hose; Brushes; Build
ing Material; Canvas; Chemicals Drugs,
Paints and Varnishes Cordage; Dry
Goods; Equipments for Boats and Ships;
Fittings for Boilers and Engines; Fittings
for Galley and Houses Anthracite Coal:
Bituminous Coal and Coke; Charcoal;
Wood; Furniture for Galley and House;
Furniture for Table; instruments, Mathe.
matical and measuring; Lamps and Lam
terms; Machinery and Machine Tools;
Metals; Naval Stores; Oils, Illuminating
and lubricants; Leather, Rubber and
Beltings; Lumber and Timber; Pipes,
Steam, Gas. Water, and Fittings; Provi-
sions; Rolling Stock; small Stores; Sta
tionery; Engineers Supplies; Plumber s
Supplies: Tools and Hardwarde; Wood
and Willow ware; Provender, Hay, Oats,
Corn, etc.. Hemp; Special Machinery,
Cupola, furniture, and miscellaneous.
Proposals will be received for one or
more of the above mentioned classes, or
for one or more Yard or Station. The
articles must conform to the Navy stand
ard and pass the usual inspection. In
case of tie bids, the award will be made
BY lot No bid will be received after the
time specified Proposals must be made
on the prescribed forms, and filled out as
directed in the schedule, or they will be
declared informal Schedules of sup
plies required, with blank forms attached
will be forwarded upon application to the
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing -
Schedules are prepared for each of the
above named Navy Yards and Stations,
and applicants for the same should desig-
nate which schedule they wish forwarded
to them.
The Department reserves the right TO
reject any and all proposals not considered
advantageous to the Government, and to
waive such defects as are not in conflict
with law.
JAMES FULTON,
Paymaster General L. S. Navy.
7.1.4w.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

IRIS pretty authoritatively given
ont, that President Cleveland has
been persuaded that duty demands
of him a reversal of his first deter
mination not to be candidate for
reelection, and that an early move
ment may be looked for to secure a
denomination. The spoils doctrine
is to be inaugurated; the cabinet is
to be reorganlzed, and every imped-
iment to success is to be removed,
Without meaning to be offensive,
we suggest to his excellency, that a
denomination is not equivalent to
a reelection.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06
PROPOSALS.
7.1.4w.
u. S. NAVAL ACADEMY,
ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 25th, 1887

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received
y until JULY % at noon, for the follow
ing supplies for the Naval Academy, to
be delivered in Annapolis, viz. Glass /,
Lumber; Glass 2, Building Materials, and
Feed; Glass 3, Mill and Cabinet Work;
Glass A, Hauling; Glass 5, Plumbers Sup
plies; Glass 6, Hardware; Class Z, Iron
Work, Iron, and Metals; Glass 8, Paints
and Brushes. Glass 8, Carpets. Full de.
tails given upon APPLICATION. Proposals
will be received from regular dealers,
must be in duplicate, and endorsed on
envelope Proposals for Lumber, Building
materials, Hardware, Iron work etc., for
the u. s. Naval Academy. A written
guarantee signed by one or more respon-
sible persons, as prescribed in section 81
719 .Revised Statutes, must accompany
each proposal.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
bids not deemed advantageous TO the
Government.
w. T. SAMPSON,
Comdr., T. s. N, Superintendent.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

The New York San has quite a
lengthy report Of the Fourth of
July celebration Of the Tammany
Hall chiefs, and this is all that is
said of Hon. Barnes Compton
Hon. Barnes Compton of Maryland
said
believe in rewarding the Democratic
warrior who fights for the maintenance
of his beliefs.
We have nothing to apprehend from
abroad. The enemies of our institutions
arc right here on the ground. They are
the men who would override the COnsti-
tuition, who favor the acquisition of en-
larged power by the Federal government.
/ believe in the success of my country,
because / believe there are Democrats
enough to save her.
Other papers say that Mr.. Comp
ton was frequently and loudly APP
plauded.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06
As Sole Agent for John Wanamake

AS Sole Agent for John WaRamake
of Philadelphia, am now prepared to
exhibit full line of Samples both for the
Custom and Ready made Clothing depart
ments. Your measure taken and goods
made in the best Custom Manner at low
prices and 1T guaranteed or no safe. In
the ready-made clothing department l
have q full line of samples representing
the stock of Wanamaker, and by the
Wanamaker system of measurement. Can
fit al sizes and shapes from the smallest
child to the largest man. Prices are guar
anteed by Wanamaker to be lower than
other establ ishments- fact, by his Oscn
guarantee you get all the benefit of per
sonal visit to the house of Wanamaker
itself. Clerical suits made to order. and
society uniforms furnished on short no
tice at low prices. F. o. WHITE, Agt.
n No. Francis St., Annapolis, I'D
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

The Mormons Of Utah are hold
ing a convention to formulate a
constitution preparatory to becom.
ing a State. The most important
and advanced movement, is the
adoption of an article which reads:
Bigamy and polygamy being consider
cd incompatible with republican form
of government, each of them is hereby
forbidden and declared misdemeanor.
Any person who shall violate this section
shall, on conviction thereof, be punished
by fine of not moro than 81 900, and by
Imprisonment for term net less than six
months nor more than three years, in the
discretion of the court. This section
shall be construed as operative without
the aid of legislation, and the offences
prohibited by this section shall not be
barred by any statute of limitation with
in three years after the commission of
the offence, nor the power of pardon eX-
tend there until such pardon shall have
been approved by the President of the
United States.
With such a provision in the con-
stitution we do not see how Con-
gress can refuse to embody Utah in
the great States of the nation.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

!. SAYS the american "Six col
ored men shot in Louisiana and
six more were lynched last week 5y
one band of white men. As usual,
nobody did it. This may not be
bloody-shirtism, but it is certainly
q bloody outrage"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

SEVEN stalwart yeomen marched
up to the door Of the Towson Jail,
and demanded the delivery of a
prisoner. The jailor refused and
they marched back again.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

GARRETT county has pledged its
delegates in the State convention
to Col. Victor l.. Baughman for
Governor. The gallant Colonel
would make a model Governor, and
the democrats will hardly find a
more popular candidate.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

ALL ocean steamers from New
York running to Europe are crow
ded with passengers, tourists, sight
seers and curiosity hunters. 1t is
now noted that not many natural
lied Americans are going abroad,
especially into Germany or Italy,
where unsettled claims upon them
for military service exist. The I'M
settled condition of Europe and the
demand for soldiers render it safe
for naturalized Americans to re-
main in the land of their adoption.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

A QUEER Casa peculiar MUIR
der case has recently come to ter
mination in Kentucky, where they
are largely given to peculiar cases.
One cold winter night a man and
his wife INDUCED in quarrel and
fight, pastime with which they had
long been familiar. The husband
threatened her life and started to
get a knife with which to carry his
threat into execution. The woman
ran out of the house, and was not
seen again until next day, when
her dead body was found in snow
bank, death evidently having result
ed from exposure. The husband
was arrested, indicted and tried,
and found guilty of manslaughter,
the Judge having charged the jury
that if the woman fled through fear
of death or great bodily injury at
,the hands of her husband, and died
from exposure, he was crlminally
liable for her death. The defen-
dant carried the case to the Court
of Appeals which has set aside the
verdict, holding that the trial
Judges charge was erroneous. The
Court says "The jury were au-
thorized by the instruction to con-
Wet if they believed the accused used
such force and violence as to cause
the deceased to leave the house from
fear of death or great bodily harm
at his hands. But they were not
instructed as they should have been
before the convicting, to believe,
nor permitted to inquire whether
or mot such fear was well grounded
or reasonable. The Court further
suggested that the jury might have
reached different conclusion if it
had been allowed to take into con-
sideration the fact that the wife, on
one occasion, had soundly whipped
her husband and demonstrated her
ability to take care of herself.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

A number of very destructive
fires have recently occurred in the
various States. Some large towns
have been completely destroyed,
and a number of lives lost.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

WALTER l.. KILToN, a seaman on
the bark Rose Innes, of Maine, is
under arrest in Baltimore, on the
charge of an outrageous assault
upon the pretty Miss Henrietta,
Powell, daughter of Captain Robert
G. Powell, of the schooner Alfred
Stewart, of Virginia. The girl was
so badly injured that she is now at
the Maryland University Hospital.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

JACOB SHARP's health has been
gradually growing worse since he
has been lodged in Ludlow street
Jail to await sentence for bribery.
Yesterday his illness had increased
so much that he was unable to leave
his bed, and his friends have be-
come alarmed. To-day is his sew
entieth birthday. His wife is in
constant attendance at his bedside.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

The mortality in New York city
begins to excite alarm. Yesterday
the deaths numbered 20S.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06
FOR STATE SENATOR.

MR.. EDITOR.-I hereby announce to the
wi Democratic voters of Anne A rundel
County, the name of EDWARD @. CAN'T,
for the State Senate, subject to the decision of
the County Convention. The Convention would
not only honor itself in comforting upon him
this nomination, but it would do honor to the
party and the county he represents He would
poll more votes than any man in his party.
AN OLD DEMOCRAT.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

THE taking of the next census
will be the next work in order, the
work of which will be inaugurated in
a very few years. 1t will then be
shown that during this decade the
increase of population has been
greater than during any similar
period since the founding of the
Government. It will be due in
most part to immigration.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06
FOR SHERIFF.

CHESTERFIELD, May 80, ~.
Mr.. EDITOR If MR.. HENRY M.
COX, will consent to allow his name to
go before the democratic primaries for
the office of Sheriff, he will receive the
united support of the Democracy of the
SECOND DISTRICT.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

The usual number Of accidents
mark the 4th of July celebrations.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

MALI PH0SPHATES The great Health
Drink at HART's Cigar Store. cents
glass. Can and try it, 81 Maryland Ave.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06
SIX PER CENT MORTGAGES
ON IMPROVED
q WESTERN FARMS,3
Negotiated, Guaranteed and for Sale
BY THE
Lombard Investment 10.

This company never loans more than 40 per
cent. on the fair value of property mortgaged.
Its capital stock paid in iS..... $10000O0 90
Surplus and undivided profits.....-... 36,345 %
Additional liability of stockholders 100000 90
Value OF Company guarantee. s, 236. 345 g
The Lombards have been in this business for
over thirty years and have the highest testi-
monials from the leading financial institutions
of the country. Coupons for semi-annual inter
est attached to mortgage bonds paye he at
Maverick National Bank, Boston, Mass with
out cost.
For examination of mortgages for sale and
further information apply TO
J. Writ RANDALL.
f21y Annapolis.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

WEDNESDAY, July 6, 1887.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-06

WIN. NJ. ABBOTT. EDITOR.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
Saving His Own Boy.

Some years ago." said Rev. DIR. r.
S. Macarthur, "when / lived in the
city of Rochester, / was acquainted
with the family in which the chief in
terest of this incident centered. The
father of that family had been in New
York and was coming back to Roches-
ter. He saw crowd gathered just
above the upper falls. 1t was before
the walls were built upon the Genesee
river, crowding its channel as it is now
crowded. lie asked what it meant.
They told him that a boy had fallen
into the river, had been carried down
by the current and had gone down in
this eddy. 1t took him but a moment
to drop his traveling-bag and throw off
bis hat and his coat. He had saved
two children before. He plunged into
the water. He was for moment lost
to sight. The water gurgled and bub-
bed up. The people waited with
bated breath and praying hearts. In a
moment more they saw him coming up
with the child in his arms. Up went
the shout and out went many hands to
help him. Soon he was upon the bank,
and the thankful people were gather
ing about the brave man and the res
cued boy. lie stood upon the shore a
moment, rubbing his eyes and gazing
on the child. What means this strange
look! See himl He falls upon his
knees. Hear him! He cries, o God.
it is my own child!' That child is
now a man and lives in the city of
Brooklyn. "-Ercbdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
1tlural ano Religious.
The PRAYER Of Faith.

The late Professor G. f. Stowe once
told to a company of ministers this IN
cident of his life: While professor at
Lane Seminary, and trying to live upon
a very small salary, Mrs. Stowe once
came to me with the ominous message:
"The flour is all goneW 1t was in the
days when flour was very expensive
some fifteen dollars a barrel. Professor
Stowe received this announcement in
blank silence. What TO do he did not
know. He had no money. The hun
per-wolf was at the door. The thought
soon occurred to him: "Are you not
child of God? Why not tell your
trouble to your Heavenly Father" AT
once Professor Stowe bowed upon his
knees in prayer. He simply told the
Heavenly Father the circumstances of
the case. He could not help himself.
Would not he take the matter in hand?
As though relieved of burden, Pro-
fessor Stowe dismissed the subject from
his mind and started for his duties in
the Seminary. His house was quite out
of town. Too poor to pay for ride he
commonly walked, or, as in this in
stance, secured ride with some chance
passer on the street. AS he rode into
the city, his mind intent upon the lee
ture he was going to give, a close car
rage passed. The lady occupant of
the carriage threw open the window,
stopped her driver and addressed Pro-
fessor Stowe: edo you know where
Professor Stowe lives?" Yes, mad
ame," the professor explained, giving
the locality. The lady said she re-
l., 10
for she had a message for him. DO you
not live near him? Could | depend on
YOU to give him this letter." Professor
Stowe consented; and all this time it
never occurred to him to inform his
questoner that he himself was the per-
son she was seeking. He received the
letter, put it in his pocket and went his
way. On his return home Mrs. Stowe
addressed him: Well, Calvin, how
about the four?" He did not know.
He had done nothing but pray over it.
Again he went to his room and prayed
that the Heavenly Father would con-
slider his need As he rose to his feet,
he recalled the letter he had received
and in his Observation-Disclosures had for
gotten. He opened it and found a
twenty-dollar bill. No name was at
tached To him, at least, there was no
possibility of doubt that here was an
instance of answered prayer. We must
hold to the belief that ours is a super
natural religion. God is as truly the
Heavenly Father as in the days of jacob
or of the disciples. We may not an.
ticipate exemption from trials, but we
are taught to pray: Give us this day
our daily bread, and deliver us from
evil" This is a model prayer. We
must always try to close it as Jesus
closed his own petition; 4" Neverthe.
less, not as l will, but as thou wilt"
And who can limit the possibilities OF
the prayer of faith?-Rer. Charles +
james, in ChriStidn-dt- Work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
4 Child's Heart.

The other day curious old woman,
having bundle in her hand and walk
ing with painful effort, sat down on a
curbstone to rest. A group of three lit
tie ones, the Oldest about nine. stopped
in front of the old woman, saying never
a word, but watching her face. She
smiled Suddenly the smile faded, and
the corner of the calico apron went up
to wipe away tear. The eldest child
asked. care you sorry because you
haven't got any children ?'' ell had
children once, but they are all dead
whispered the woman, a sob in her
throat. "Im sorry" said the little
girl, as her chin quivered. "I'd give
you one of my little brothers, but |
haven't got but two, and don't believe
I'd like to spare one" God bless
you, child-bless you forever" sobbed
the old woman, and for a minute her
face was buried in her apron. " But
III tell you what I'll do" seriously
continued the child. You may kiss
us all once, and if little Ben isn't
afraid you may kiss him four times,
Pedestrians who saw three well-dressed
children put their arms round that
strange old woman's neck and kiss her
were greatly puzzled. They didn't
know the hearts of children and they
didn't hear the woman's words, as she
rose to 90: 80 children, I'm only a
poor old woman. | believed I'd nothing
to live for, but you've given me a
lighter heart than I've had for ten lone
years. 1.-The PdnSy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
How to Read.

Nobody can be sure that he has got
clear ideas on subject unless he has
tried TO put them down on a piece of
paper in independent words of his own.
II is an excellent plan, too, when you
have read good book to sit down and
write a short abstract of what you can
remember of it. 1t is a still better plan,
if YOU can make up your minds to a
slight extra labor, to do what Lord Stat
ford and Gibbon and Daniel Webster
did. After glancing over the title, sub
iect or design of the book, these emf
nent men would take a pen and write
roughly what questions they expected
to find answered in it, what difficulties
solved and what kind of information
impaired. Such practices keep us from
reading with the eye only, gliding
vaguely over the page; and they help
us to place our new acquisitions in re-
lation with what we knew before. 1t
is almost always worth while to read a
thing twice over, to make sure that
nothing has been missed or dropped on
the way, or wrongly conceived or in
terpreted; and if the subject be seri-
Gus, it is often well to let an interval
elapse. Ideas. relations, statements Of
fact are not to he taken by storm. We
have to steep them in the mind, in the
hope of thus eXtracating their inmost
essence and significance. If one lets
an interval pass, and then returns, it
is surprising how clear and ripe that
has become which, when we left it,
seemed crude, obscure, full of per-
pleXity. All this takes trouble, no
doubt: but then it will not do to deal
with ideas that we find in books or else
where as certain bird does with its
eggs-leave them in the sand for the
sun to hatch and chance to rear.
People who follow this plan possess
nothing better than ideas haf-hatched
and convictions reared by accident.
They are like a man who should pace
up and down the world in the delusion
that he is clad in sumptuous robes OF
purple and velvet, when in truth he is
only half covered by the rags and tat
tiers of other peoples cast-off clothes.-
John Morley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
UANNAUC.p ITKIN,s ESTATE.

L T. Ut NIN T. WH.IIIIIIIOI IIIslTIVV 8,
In Probate Court held at Montpelier, in said
District on the 18th day of January, a. D. 1857:
Asa Spencer, Executor of the last viii and Tes-
lament of Hannah G.. Pitkin. late of Marsh
field, in said District deceased presents his
administration account for examination and
allowance, and makes application for de
cree of distribution and partition of the es;
tate of said deceased. Whereupon, It is ordered
by said Court that said account and said appli-
cation he referred to session thereof to be held at
the Probate ONCE in said Montpelier the 18th day
of February A. u. lss7, for hearing and decision
thereon. And it is further ordered, that notice
hereof be given to all persons interested, by pubhca
ton of the same three weeks successfully in the
Vermont Waterman d STATE J0HrHdL newspaper
published at Montpelier, previous to said time APP
pointed for hearing, that they may appear at said
time and place, and show cause, if any they may
have why said account should not he allowed and
such decree made. BY the Court.-Attest,
$3.50 HIRAM CARLETON. Judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
Old Age.

"Therc is much that is beautiful
about old age says grandma. " Here
| can sit and live over again in fancy
experience from which, if the thrill of
pleasure has departed, why, so has the
poignancy of pain. 1t is calm and
quiet now, for the ambition of youth
and middle age no longer spurs with
worrying eXaction. The toll and bur-
den of more active days has given way
to deliberatiOn, respite from response
bility, and somewhat of feebleness.
Now my chief aim must be to keep
cheerful, for when occasional pain and
consciousness of growing weakness
comes on there is some tendency
towards fretfulness or repining, which
is very trying to the young and does
no good to any one. Then think the
old should aim to help and instruct the
young, not so much by preaching as by
example. / remember well the first
verse of the littlepoem, What is Time?'
lacked an aged man, a man of cares
Mrmfd ana bent, aGd nv White wth h9Gry hairs
Tie young the gay, the fair to weave 1t well"
Yes, ! Will try in my way to in
fiuencc hose about me in every way
can 10 weave ii well-to weave ii Well"
Grandma rocks reileclively on, but the
lesson she wants to teach the young is
pungent, vital one. Time is indeed
the warp of life" and it is for each
one to decide what of truth and right,
or what of evil and sorrow they will
weave into the intricate and precious
fabric. Pause moment right here
and consider. A tangled or twisted
thread cannot be drawn from this weav-
ing at will. When old age comes creep